Applying Research Skills

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1 Applying Research Skills Megan West Palombi Capella University NSH4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective Shad Smith March 16, 2021

2 Applying Library Research Skills The advancements in technology with health care organizations, patient safety has increased in the prevention of medication errors. Medication errors can cause patient harm and is incredibly important to address ways to prevent such an error from occurring. Preventing medication errors and patient harm is essential to providing quality care. As a registered nurse, it is my duty to maintain patient safety and to prevent harm. It is also my duty to administer medications to patients on a daily basis and to do so in a safe manner. There are safety checks that nurses are taught to help prevent medication errors from occurring during the medication administration process. These checks include verifying the order, verifying the medication when pulling it out of the system, another verification when scanning the medication, verification of the patient by using two identifying factors such as their name and date of birth. Verbalizing medication that is being given to the patient, verification of patient’s allergies, and discussing possible side effects of the medications being administered are also checks that are involved in the administration process. The medication administration tool that is used at my facility, alerts if the medication you scanned is correct or not, it verifies the medication and the dose ordered, it will alert if any allergies are noted for the particular patient, and I feel that all these checks and measures help prevent medication errors from occurring. After researching all the errors that can occur with medications and the severity of some errors, I will definitely ensure that I am careful, and I continue to verify all checks when administering medication to all my patients. Identifying Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles With using the search engine provided by Capella University called Summon, I was able to gain access to databases such as ProQuest Central and Sage Journals. The particular topic I

3 chose for this assignment suggested to use keywords such as “medication errors” and “medication safety” to search the engine for articles relevant to patient safety with medication administration and errors. Then I filtered the article options to only show peer-reviewed articles that have been published within the last five years to ensure that the research was the most recent research completed. Assessing Credibility and Relevance of Information Sources For credibility purposes, my selection of peer-reviewed articles were specifically chosen due to their recent publication. All articles chosen for this assignment were published within the last five years. When researching articles for this topic, I used key words that were relevant to the topic to ensure the articles contained information relating to patient safety with medication errors. I read each article prior to choosing it to ensure that it met criteria for being used and it would provide me with the appropriate insight to complete the assignment. When selecting articles for this assignment, I ensured that each article was full of rich information and that it contained examples and statistics that supported the research for patient safety. Annotated Bibliography Athanasakis, E. (2020, January). Registered Nurses’ Experiences of Medication Errors—An Original Research Protocol: Methodology, Methods, and Ethics. Retrieved March 8, 2021, from https://journals-sagepub-com.library.capella.edu/doi/full/10.1177/0844562120902668 . The article begins with discussing how fragile such a study can be on this particular topic due to requiring interviews with registered nurses who have experienced medication errors. The research could go one of two ways, either leading to nurses’ empowerment

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